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In this paper we propose a new modeling technique for vehicular traffic flow, designed for capturing at a macroscopic level some effects, due to the microscopic granularity of the flow of cars, which would be lost with a purely continuous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

This paper addresses the traffic management problem for autonomous vehicles at intersections without traffic signals. In the current system, a road junction has no traffic signals when the traffic volume is low to medium. Installing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Rugved Katole , Arpita Sinha

The interest in developing smart cities has increased dramatically in recent years. In this context an intelligent transportation system depicts a major topic. The forecast of traffic flow is indispensable for an efficient intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ralf Rüther , Andreas Klos , Marius Rosenbaum , Wolfram Schiffmann

The traffic assignment problem is essential for traffic flow analysis, traditionally solved using mathematical programs under the Equilibrium principle. These methods become computationally prohibitive for large-scale networks due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mostafa Ameli , Sulthana Shams , Van Anh Le , Alexander Skabardonis

Tracking congestion throughout the network road is a critical component of Intelligent transportation network management systems. Understanding how the traffic flows and short-term prediction of congestion occurrence due to rush-hour or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Mohammadhani Fouladgar , Mostafa Parchami , Ramez Elmasri , Amir Ghaderi

The computation of electrical flows is a crucial primitive for many recently proposed optimization algorithms on weighted networks. While typically implemented as a centralized subroutine, the ability to perform this task in a fully…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Luca Becchetti , Vincenzo Bonifaci , Emanuele Natale

The future motion of traffic participants is inherently uncertain. To plan safely, therefore, an autonomous agent must take into account multiple possible trajectory outcomes and prioritize them. Recently, this problem has been addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Christoph Schöller , Alois Knoll

Optimization using network traffic models requires computing gradients of objective functions with respect to model parameters. However, derivation of such gradients has often been considered difficult or impractical due to their complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Toru Seo

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

We study a class of nonlinear nonlocal conservation laws with discontinuous flux, modeling crowd dynamics and traffic flow, without any additional conditions on finiteness/discreteness of the set of discontinuities or on the monotonicity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Aekta Aggarwal , Ganesh Vaidya

This work studies a macroscopic traffic flow model driven by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. Using Lie symmetry analysis, we determine the infinitesimal generators and construct an optimal system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Urvashi Joshi , Aniruddha Kumar Sharma , Rajan Arora

In this paper, we apply a Control Lyapunov Function methodology to design two families of cruise controllers for the two-dimensional movement of autonomous vehicles on lane-free roads using the bicycle kinematic model. The control Lyapunov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Iasson Karafyllis , Dionysis Theodosis , Markos Papageorgiou

Statistical mechanics of a disordered system of cars on a single-lane road is developed. Behaviour of cars is defined by conditional probability of car velocity depending on the distance and velocity of the car ahead. A system consisting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 Anton Šurda

A recently introduced cellular automaton model for the description of traffic flow is investigated. It generalises asymmetric exclusion models which have attracted a lot of interest in the past. We calculate the so-called fundamental…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Schadschneider , M. Schreckenberg

This paper presents a novel AI-based smart traffic management system de-signed to optimize traffic flow and reduce congestion in urban environments. By analysing live footage from existing CCTV cameras, this approach eliminates the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ahmed Mahmoud Elbasha , Mohammad M. Abdellatif

While macroscopic traffic flow models consider traffic as a fluid, microscopic traffic flow models describe the dynamics of individual vehicles. Capturing macroscopic traffic phenomena remains a challenge for microscopic models, especially…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Niklas Kolbe , Moritz Berghaus , Eszter Kalló , Michael Herty , Markus Oeser

As the speed and the dynamic range of computer networks evolve, the issue of efficient traffic management becomes increasingly important. This work describes an approach to traffic management using explicit rate information provided to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Charny , D. Clark , R. Jain

Many transport processes on networks depend crucially on the underlying network geometry, although the exact relationship between the structure of the network and the properties of transport processes remain elusive. In this paper we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-26 Bosiljka Tadic , G. J. Rodgers , Stefan Thurner

Metric graphs are structures obtained by associating edges in a standard graph with segments of the real line and gluing these segments at the vertices of the graph. The resulting structure has a natural metric that allows for the study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Lexing Ying

Autonomous vehicles hold great promise in improving the future of transportation. The driving models used in these vehicles are based on neural networks, which can be difficult to validate. However, ensuring the safety of these models is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Maximilian Zipfl , Sven Spickermann , J. Marius Zöllner